•Court convicts another for impersonation in Ogun
A former staff of a new generation bank, Aminat Odunmide Amusa, has been arraigned before Justice Uche Agomo of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, by the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on an eight-count charge bordering on forgery, defrauding and stealing to the tune of N3.2 million.
Disclosing this on Thursday, June 24, 2021, the EFCC’s Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said that luck ran out on the 30-year-old lady when the Commission received a petition alleging fraudulent withdrawal of over N3 million from a customer’s account by the defendant.
One of the charges read: “That you Amusa Aminat Odunmide ‘F’, between the 16th day of April 2018 and 6th of July 2018, in your position as a Bank officer of Fidelity Bank and in your responsibility as the Account Officer to Azeez Ibrahim Alao, in Ibadan, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, fraudulently stole a total sum of Two Million, Thirty-Three Thousand, Three Hundred and Sixty Naira (N2,033,360:00) being money you stole directly from the personal account of the said Azeez Ibrahim Alao and deposited same into Fidelity Bank Account Number 6590137413 and Account Number 0020919795, from whence you utilized the said money and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 390(9) of the Criminal Code Cap C38 Laws of the Federal of Nigeria (Revised Edition) 2007, when read along with section 1(1) (d) of the Failed Bank (Recovery of Debts) and Financial Malpractice in Bank Cap F2 Laws of Federation of Nigeria (Revised Edition) 2007.”
After the charge was read, the defendant pleaded “not guilty.”
The prosecuting counsel, Chidi Okoli, asked the court to fix a date for trial, and remand her in the Nigerian Correctional Service custody.
In a related development, the EFCC also secured the conviction of one Qudus Akorede Ajanaku a.k.a Rachel Kate, before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo of the Federal High Court, Abeokuta.
According to Uwujaren, his conviction was based on a one-count amended charge of fraudulent impersonation, contrary to Section 22 (2) and punishable under Section 22 (2)(b)(iv) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention Etc) Act, 2015.
Ajanaku was jailed for one month, and was ordered to restitute the money he fraudulently obtained from his victim.
He is also to forfeit all the items recovered from him to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
